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Brought to you by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
The Office of Inspector General is tasked with ensuring efficiency, accountability, and integrity in the U.S. Postal Service. We also have the distinct mission of helping to maintain confidence in the mail and postal system, as well as to improve the Postal Service's bottom line. We use audits and investigations to help protect the integrity of the Postal Service. Our Semiannual Report to Congress presents a snapshot of the work we did to fulfill our mission for the six-month period ending Spetember 30, 2017.
Our objective was to evaluate the throughput and productivity performance of the U.S. Postal Service’s 33 deployed Small Package Sorting System (SPSS) machines. We found that on average nationally, the SPSS machine throughput performance goal was exceeded by about five percent from January 1, 2016, through July 31, 2017. We also found that on average nationally, the Postal Service was not meeting its SPSS productivity goal by about 17 percent from January 1, 2016, through July 31, 2017.
